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Double Your Donation at no extra cost to you!

Posted on 3rd November 2017

We are excited that the Family Holiday Association has again been selected to participate in the Big Give Christmas Challenge.

The challenge is a unique way to to make your donation have double the impact! Donations made to our project via theBigGive.org.uk will be doubled during the campaign. If you would like to support our work this year, we highly recommend doing so during the Christmas Challenge when your donation will be doubled and make even more of a difference to us.

Our aim this time is to raise £8,000 from individual donors (which will be doubled to £16,000). Whilst this is a little more than last year, it’s a target we believe we can reach. With your help of course!

Precious memories

We will be raising money for our Shades Day Fund, a fund we created earlier in the year to help with the maintenance and replacement of our fleet of caravans. Our caravans are located at Haven or Butlin’s holiday parks throughout the UK, and provide vital holiday accommodation near the seaside for hundreds of struggling families every year.

Last month we received a letter from Alison. Alison and her family were referred to us by their Family Support Worker in Rotherham. She is a wife and mother whose life was turned upside down in 2015 when she was diagnosed with cancer for the second time. We helped her and her family go on a short break to our caravan housed at Haven’s Primrose Valley holiday park in North Yorkshire.

You can read her letter here. It is Alison’s story in her own words, and we think she is very brave to have shared it in this way.

One donation, twice the impact

Donate online from 12 noon on Tuesday 28th November and watch your £25 become £50, £50 become £100, £100 become £200…

You can make a donation of any amount up to £5,000. And remember, whatever you can afford to give, you can be sure it will go a long way towards helping children and families in hardship to visit the seaside for the very first time.

Finally, please pass on this message to anyone who you think might be interested in supporting us and having their donation doubled.